Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765533AbYASE40 (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:56:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1765536AbYASE4K (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:56:10 -0500 Received: from relay1.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:50573 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1765523AbYASE4I (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:56:08 -0500 Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:56:02 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Olaf Hering cc: Pekka Enberg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Linux MM Subject: Re: crash in kmem_cache_init In-Reply-To: <20080117202024.GA25090@aepfle.de> Message-ID: References: <20080115150949.GA14089@aepfle.de> <84144f020801170414q7d408a74uf47a84b777c36a4a@mail.gmail.com> <20080117181222.GA24411@aepfle.de> <20080117195456.GA24901@aepfle.de> <20080117202024.GA25090@aepfle.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 640 Lines: 18 On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, Olaf Hering wrote: > > > Since -mm boots further, what patch should I try? > > rc8-mm1 crashes as well, l3 passed to reap_alien() is NULL. Sigh. It looks like we need alien cache structures in some cases for nodes that have no memory. We must allocate structures for all nodes regardless if they have allocatable memory or not. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/